Economic Opportunity

The promise of economic stability that comes with higher education has not materialized for Black women, who are paid less than their counterparts even after earning a degree.

Poverty contributes to hundreds of thousands of American deaths a year, a recent American Medical Association study finds.

With a cyclical and capital-intensive copper industry, landlocked Zambia faces a number of hurdles to economic diversification and job creation even as the labor force has grown rapidly. The headline…

The U.S. labor market is on track to hit a milestone this month or next: It will have recovered all of the jobs lost in the pandemic recession. That is…

Discussions of racism have shifted from treating it as a psychological problem regarding individual mindsets toward understanding it as a structural issue, where discrimination is born from social and legal…

The Detroit Food Commons, a $22 million community project that will house shared use kitchens, a community meeting space, offices, outdoor vendor booths, and The Detroit People’s Food Co-op (a Black-led,…

A post-growth system essentially says: Not only are we facing ecological limits, but the very systems that have been driving us into ecological overshoot are also unsustainable from a social perspective.

Bringing the question of movement economies to the fore not only helps shed light on the challenges in achieving structural economic change but also elevates the people who are making those changes in real time.

Reviewing areas where the economic costs of gun violence have been most completely measured to see where costs come from and their impact on society.

After decades without, incarcerated people can now access Pell Grants. Here’s what to know.

Americans are feeling the strain of the rising cost of living as worries about a recession grow. A study from the American Psychological Association’s 2022 Stress in America Survey reports…

At a DC conference on economic justice, advocates look to the public sector to advance a more just economy. Can a revived public sector deliver on this promise?